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Re: wearable ideas

Doug Sutherland, is the guy to talk to about LCD wearable interfacing, His
'java jacket' had an LCD sewen into the cuff of his sleve. I think I read
the same article about the votometer, but you just  reminded me of another
circut using a 9-volt battery and a 1" antenna or paperclip that you could
'point' at anything and it would detect if it was staticly charged and the
light a small LED to tell you it was, presumably you could mesure the static
charge somehow. not exactly the most useful thing for a wearable, but it
would be cool to have a full 'sensor net' to use a star trek term, on your
wearable, I would love to be able to have my hmd show me things like
lat/long barametric pressure, ambiant temp, EM fields, static charges,
humidity, etc.
----- Original Message -----
From: "The Raven" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 8:41 PM
Subject: wearable ideas

> I know most of oyu prolly don't read these....but well..soemtimes I am
just
> thinking and come up with neat ideas...(or atleast i think soem of them
are
> neat)
>
> Idea 1:
>      I was thinking about projects in old magazines (electronics now etc.)
> and i remembered once seeing a wireless voltmeter which used the human
body
> as its return circuit....now...my question is this...you can drive the
> inputs on a parrallel port with an optoisolator right?...so why cant you
> build a small circuit which drives those optoisolators by using the human
> body as a ground....taking this a step further....put conductive patches
on
> the tip of each finger and three on the thumb (three thumb keys) and by
> touching any bare spot on yourself you can type....you can type by
touching
> your fingertips together....touchign it to the side of your face etc
> etc....VERY covert! (except for the conductive patches)....any input on
this
> would be interesting...
>
> Idea 2:
>     put a small graphics LCD on your wrist and have it tied to a tiny
> computer...this computer would be interfaced to your wearable...this way
you
> could have alerts (such as new mail etc.) coem to the LCD...now to take
this
> a step further....maybe incorporate sensors (say a temperature sensor and
> maybe some sort of transducers etc.) on your fingertips.... and patch them
> through the LCD on your wrist with an option to log it on your
> wearable....the possibilities are tremendous....and ultra sensitive
> transducer may for example allow you to hear someone's heart beat (and
maybe
> display it on the LCD along with their temperature)....or to listen
through
> walls....but the whole thing is using the LCD to alert you when you have
new
> messages or something and give you a basic overview (subject line etc.) of
> the message so you are not tied to a HMD
>
>
> maybe these ideas will help someone become inspired...I know I/O freaks
> might like the sensortized glove....:)
>
> eli
>
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